Bodies, Masses, Power

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Speeding across the California landscape, Chase pauses frequently to see what's really there: not just what the movies have taught us to expect, but the range and variation of the built environment that occupies what he calls 'everyday space'. A practising architect and urban planner, as well as an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural featuresafrom the gay community space of West Hollywood, to the stucco box apartment complexes of the 1950s, to the truly weird mix of domestic arrangements in Venice Beach, to gated communities, to some of the historic houses of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and to the most recent transformations of the casino architecture in Las Vegas. At once learned, witty and ironic, Chase makes the mundane world of Southern California vistas come alive on the page.Sometimes there were surprises, like the almost functioning engine left over from
a curbside car repair, or the discarded aquot;Lifelike Sex Toyaquot; large enough to deserve
a liability disclaimer. Unless I went out there each day to litter-pick, the frontanbsp;...

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Bodies, Masses, Power

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John Chase, Warren Montag

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Verso - 2000

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